Cam Nivag wrote: ↑Sat May 12, 2018 7:28 am The post about how to get a visa to Japan for a Cambodian woman reminded me of a question I wanted to ask.

Do you take any precautions when traveling abroad with a Cambodian woman, so you don't lose her, or so that she can get back to Cambodia if you drop dead?

I give my girlfriend like $50-$100 in local currency on arrival so she can get a taxi back to the hotel if separated. I also try to get a hotel taxi card and make her carry that, so she knows what hotel to go back to.

A month or so ago, I was visiting Hong Kong with my girlfriend. We took the airport train into Kowloon station. We exit the train and I ask her if she has her ticket, because the checkpoint/automated check ticket is upon exiting the station, not when you get on the train. She looks through her purse and can't find the ticket. She says "maybe I left it on the train." We were standing by the train, by I didn't want to walk back onto the train to check her seat, because if the doors then closed and the train started taking me to the next station, we'd be separated and who knows if I'd ever find her. It would be disastrous.

I told her to check her pockets and purse again. No ticket. I figure I have to jump back onto the train (it's now been stopped for like 1-2 minutes) to check if she left it on her seat, even though I really don't want to do this. So I take her duffel bag, drop it in the train doorway, run to her seat, and see the ticket sitting there on the seat. At which point the train doors start to close. The duffel bag stops them from closing, and I hop over the duffel bag, out the doors of train, and pull the duffel bag out, just like Indiana Jones would do. To say she was impressed with that move would be an understatement.

Then I asked her "What would you have done if the doors had closed with me in the train and taken me to the next station?" She says "I don't know, because I don't know what station you were going to." Which suggests to me that she would have gotten on the next train and tried to look for me at the next station instead of staying put. So we had to have a conversation, like one might have with a 5 year old, that "If we get separated, don't look for me. Stay where you are, I'll find you."

The other thing I worry about is "What if I die here?" Would she be able to get the flight home, does she have money to buy a new plane ticket or change the ticket, etc. A Cambodian woman who is not an experienced traveler, in a foreign country, with no money, and a dead white guy, would probably be pretty vulnerable.